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The Early Islamic Conquests
By (Author) Fred M. Donner
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
909.09767
Paperback
512
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
709g
In this contribution to the ongoing debate on the nature and causes of the Islamic conquests in Syria and Iraq during the sixth and seventh centuries, Fred Donner argues for a necessary distinction between the causes of the conquests, the causes of their success, and the causes of the subsequent Arab migrations to the Fertile Crescent. Originally